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Jean-Claude Dauphin

Jean-Claude Dauphin

Actor · Born 1948-03-16 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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Biography

Jean-Claude Dauphin (né Legrand; born 16 March 1948) is a French actor who is primarily known for national movie productions in France. He is a uncle to American actors Griffin Newman and James Newman as well as to chef Romilly Newman. He is the son of actor Claude Dauphin and actress Maria Mauban, the grand-son of the poet Maurice Étienne Legrand and nephew host Jean Nohain, his father's brother. At Lycée Paul-Valéry in Paris, he studied in the class of Latinist Bernard Mortureux, a specialist in Seneca. His debut, in 1968, in Adolphe ou l'Âge tendre (Adolphe or the tender Age), directed by Bernard Toublanc-Michel, made him famo In 1969, he plays Claude Jade's fiancé in The Witness. At the time, Claude Jade and Jean-Claude Dauphin were a couple. Jade later wrote in her autobiography Baisers envolés: "He was charming, funny, intelligent, and I was not long in going out with him. With our fair complexion and fine features, we could have played a brother and a sister." Gérard Blain hired him in 1970 for The Friends, a gay romance which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and in 1972 Bernard Paul gave him the lead role alongside Dominique Labourier …

Movies & TV Shows

  1. LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2009) — Minister
  2. Don't Die Too Hard! (2001) — The Commissioner
  3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) — Swiss editor
  4. Choice of Arms (1981) — Ricky
  5. Nuit d'ivresse (1986) — 2nd Policeman
  6. The Second Wind (2007) — Jacques
  7. Dracula and Son (1976) — Cristéa/Christian
  8. Six-Pack (2000) — Fouquier
  9. The School of Flesh (1998) — Louis-Guy
  10. Maigret (1991) — Le maire Grandmaison
  11. Why Not Me? (1998) — Alain
  12. The Last Bolshevik (1994) — Self (voice)
  13. Murders in... (2013) — Franck Keller
  14. The Suspects (1974) — Christian Solnes, the singer
  15. La Mandarine (1972) — Alain
  16. The Friends (1971) — Nicolas
  17. Au bon beurre (1981) — Léon Lécuyer
  18. L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps (1985) — Gautier
  19. Murder In La Rochefoucauld (2019) — Duc Thibaut de l'Essile
  20. Chance and Violence (1974) — Gilbert Morgan
  21. Un mauvais garçon (2020) — Yves Fontanelle
  22. The Passenger (2015) — Général Garsac
  23. What a Flash! (1972)
  24. Netchayev is Back (1991) — Philippe Martel
  25. Spécial police (1985) — Durand
  26. Police Commissioner Moulin (1976) — Bernard Deffoux
  27. Claudine (1978) — Armand Duplessis
  28. Tender Souls (2001) — Père de Claire et Emilie
  29. Sarah (1983) — Senechal
  30. Chez Maupassant (2007) — Chenal âgé
  31. Adresse Inconnue (2008) — Stéphane Weber
  32. Champagne Charlie (1989) — Ernest
  33. Brother and Sister (2012) — George Armant
  34. Georges Bataille - À perte de vue (1997) — Narrator (voice)
  35. Yiddish Connection (1986) — Toussaint
  36. Last Exit Before Roissy (1977) — Jean-Yves, le sous-directeur du Prisunic
  37. The Tender Age (1968) — Henri Adolphe
  38. Le sourire du clown (1999) — Vogel
  39. Samson le magnifique (1995) — Le Govain
  40. Accusé Mendès France (2011) — Maître Fonlupt